Adele P. Margolis – My Hero

The first thing Margolis tells you in How to Make Clothes that Fit and Flatter is that it is a heck of a lot easier to make something look good if you’re not all bulgy in odd places. She recommends that before you sink a boatload of time into tailoring you should skip a few cocktails and put the pork chops down. Her last words on the subject: if returning to the super-hotty physique of yore seems impossible, at least “try for ten.”